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Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
John 11:45-46 CSB
These people had all it seems just seen Jesus bring Lazarus back from death. 
He'd been dead four days. 
They'd just seen Lazarus walk out in graveclothes, called back from death by God's power. 
Resurrected.
As a result many believed in Jesus, but it seems not everyone. Not sure how they held what they'd seen as having happened, and yet, didn't believe that Jesus was who he said he was. 
The signs were obvious. 
There's something in us that when we see things we don't want to believe, we find ways in our own thinking not to. 
No one seemed to be denying that Lazarus was brought back from death, just not accepting Jesus authority to do it. His authority over death. 
When we accept Jesus for who he is, believe in him, it shifts how we see ourselves in relation to Jesus, shifts how we should live, what we value, where our hope rests.
And for some of those people who had just witnessed Lazarus's resurrection, they weren't prepared to, or willing to, let those shifts happen.
It's not a once-and-done thing with Jesus but an ongoing faith journey that keeps nudging us in different ways, if we believe in him. Believe in him in every corner of our lives and being. 
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#jesusatthecentre

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